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Spectator's standard of virtue "Miss Liddy can dance a jig, raise a pasty, write a good hand, keep an account, give a reasonable answer, and do as she is bid;" but then, it only made him yawn. The man was sinking down into an active-bodied, half-learned, half-facetious bachelor. He was mentally cropping dry and solid food contentedly, and, at the same time, he was a bit of a humourist.
They raised a shout at him, until finally the old man, reluctantly and crabbedly, sidled over to join them. "You're discovered, old fox!" cried Terry; "and the outraged dignity of the law demands a drink." They plied him with half-facetious, half-envious congratulations. But Neil would have none of them. "Not my scheme," he growled. "Entirely Keith's. I'm a sleeping partner only.
He had lived in the Danish West Indies, and there he had become acquainted with his wife, a lady with social triumphs behind her, whose charms he never wearied of admiring. The mere way in which she placed her hat upon her head, or threw a shawl round her shoulders, could make him fall into ecstasies, even though he only expressed his delight in her in half-facetious terms.
I do not know how long this conversation might have gone on in this half-earnest, half-facetious style, with Miss Jorgensen for its object, had not something happened just here to bring it abruptly to a close; and that something was the report of a pistol over our very heads. "Great heaven!" ejaculated Miss Flower, losing all her color and self-possession together.
M. Goriot will not stay much longer in your house, nor shall I " "Yes, he will go out feet foremost, poor old gentleman," she said, counting the francs with a half-facetious, half-lugubrious expression. "Let us get this over," said Rastignac. "Sylvie, look out some sheets, and go upstairs to help the gentlemen." "You won't forget Sylvie," said Mme.
In one of his happy moods in "Walden" he sets down in a half-facetious, half-mystical, but wholly delightful way, his various avocations, such as his self-appointment as inspector of snow-storms and rain-storms, and surveyor of forest paths and all across-lot routes, and herdsman of the wild stock of the town. He is never more enjoyable than in such passages.
The latter was one of those writers who can throw a convincing air of unreality over the most credible events, and his half-facetious account of the affair appeared in the magazine page of a popular journal. But, happily for Filmer, this person's colloquial methods were more convincing.
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